leaving a place like home

Neither Flora nor me talked a lot in the morning. We did check out at 10am and ordered a shuttle bus to delivery us to airport at 8:00pm. We stored luggage at hotel and moved towards harbour for whale watching experience...

Happy holding boarding card for the boat in both hands, we hat a plenty of time. So we strolled down the dock.

After short lunch we entered boat and our capitain shipped us to a few smaller island in front of the coast to watch out for whales. Sitting first row on a boat at windy weathter means getting wet - we sat first row - AND yes - we had some salty shower along the way :-)

first row :-)

Finding a whale in open water without any technical equipment takes time. Whales just move to surface for 30 seconds and than dive into deep for next 3-5 minutes. In this time they change directions, which makes it not very easy to follow them. But finally we had luck and saw a small whale popping up twice to take breath close to our ship.

Returning to harbour we enjoyed the beautful skyline of Auckland and internalized all last appearing impressions.

skyline Auckland

Back to solid ground we searched a restaurant for our last dinner in New Zealand. And lucky we are, we found a pretty nice and really amazing one in a side street of Queen Street named Cassette.

look at the phrase leftside behind us... ONE OF THESE DAYS

Jep! True! It was ONE OF THESE DAYS .. we will never forget!!!

AND finally thus ends the story, because this is not the right place for any emotional bits and pieces!! ;-)

But believe - neither it was easy to take a convenient seat at airplane nor breathing constantly during take-off   ...

New Zealand - ka kite anò!